Autumn Beauty 11. _Autumn Beauty_ 9. _Belle de Septembre_ 9, 11, 14. Belle de Septembre 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 13. _Gros Rouge de Septembre_ 3, 4, 9. _Lawrence Early_ 9. _Regina nova_ 6. _Reine-Claude Rouge_ 9. _Reine-Claude Rouge de Septembre_ 5, 9. Reine-Claude Rouge of September 2. Reine-Claude Rouge de Van Mons 5, 6, 8. _Reine-Claude Rouge de Van Mons_ 9. _Reine-Claude Rouge Van Mons_ 4, 9. _Reine Nova_ (Berre) 9. _Reina Nova_ 2, 3, 4, 9. _Rote Claude_ 9. _Reine Nova_ 9. _Schöne September Königspflaume_ 9. Van Mons Königspflaume 9. _Van Mons Königspflaume_ 5. _Van Mons Red_ 9. Van Mons’ Red 4. _Van Mons Red Gage_ 5, 9. Belle is an unusually large, handsome plum but unfortunately is not of very high quality. It is much like Pond but is brighter red, a little smaller, less necked, the stem is shorter, the apex more blunt and it is more of a clingstone. European authorities say that Belle is second to none for culinary purposes and its handsome appearance gives it value across the seas as a dessert plum. As Belle grows on the grounds of this Station—it seems not to be found elsewhere in New York—the tree-characters are quite above those in the average variety of plums and when considered with the fine, late fruits, indicate that the variety might be grown with profit for market purposes. It well deserves to be tried by commercial plum-growers. Belle came from Brussels, Belgium, and was propagated by the famous horticulturist, Van Mons. Nothing further is known of its origin. Tree above medium in size, vigorous, upright, open-topped, hardy, productive; branches smooth, dull dark ash-gray, with small, numerous, raised lenticels; branchlets thick, with short internodes, green changing to brownish-red, often marked with scarf-skin, dull, very pubescent early in the season becoming less pubescent as maturity advances, with numerous, small lenticels; leaf-buds of medium size and length, conical, free. Leaves flattened or folded upward, obovate, one and seven-eighths inches wide, four and one-half inches long, thick, leathery; upper surface dark green, with deeply grooved midrib, sparingly hairy; lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; apex acute, base cuneate, margin shallowly but broadly crenate, with few small dark glands; petiole one and one-eighth inches long, thick, pubescent, tinged with light red, glandless or with one or two small, globose, yellowish glands on the stalk or base of the leaf.